This painting is a disgrace , 2022
1800 GBP
Oil on Canvas

Size: 60 x 90 cm

A reaction to the banana taped to a wall that sold for $120,000. Brings into question ideas relating to value. What is value? Is Monetary value what we place highest and who gets to say what value something is. I use the banana in many of my works to represent absurdity.

My favourite genre is still life and I am very much influenced by the early Vanitas paintings as I like to create a narrative with material objects. I aim to incorporate 3 major aspects in my paintings: a degree of technical ability, a thought-provoking concept or underlying theme and finally aesthetic value. A lot of my work is also autobiographical which also coincides with many of the underlying themes as my life experience often offers an alternative standpoint/perspective (I learnt to paint as a prisoner, being formerly involved in the drug trade).

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